My Virtual Insanity Posts

I have had many successful careers over the years. From journalist to application developer to digital marketing professional…and many other paths in between. It wasn’t that I just felt the need to move around a lot, but I am a true jack of all trades. I take my passions and run with them so I know a lot about a lot of things…and I’ve utilized that knowledge to advance myself in careers that seemed fun and interesting.

I absolutely love the digital marketing and social marketing realm I am currently in. It’s great figuring out what motivates people to engage with a product or company and seeing that online message convert to a sale and happy customer. Matching people with the right product at the right time. Simple.

Harassment is something that women have dealt with for as long as there have been women…so forever. Men making crude remarks, being subjected to crass behavior down to actual physical assault. It’s a horrible thing. And lesbian women are not immune to it either. Except there is a side of it that a lot of folks don’t know or understand.

After I came out to most of my friends and family I had one person who just couldn’t seem to accept it. It went from laughter, to disbelief, to ridicule, to downright evil.

She had always suspected I guess and did more judging and trash talking over the years about gays than almost every other person I knew combined and multiplied. She had a gay cousin who she adored but other than that her views on the LGBTQ people she encountered were pretty ugly.

A few weeks ago a “friend” on Facebook made a post asking how could a man love a man. This really threw me because this “friend” is always posting such uplifting messages and passages that speak to being non-judgmental of others and accepting of everyone. So to say I was confused was an understatement. I responded to the post and then the post was immediately deleted. WTF moment for sure.

Homophobia and the bullshit rhetoric that goes with it is not something that I have ever tolerated.

I have been seeing a lot of people asking how it was possible for the shooter in Orlando to get in the club. From what I’ve read he basically shot his way in, but it has shown me that those not in the LGBTQ community and those who have never been to a gay club don’t know how drastically different from regular clubs they are.

The gay club is not just a spot to go get drunk, dance and party. It is a sanctuary, a safe place filled with folks who are just like you, who don’t judge you and want nothing more than to be themselves and free.